Weakness in auth chain indexing allows DoS from remote room members through disk fill and high CPU usage. A remote Matrix user with malicious intent, sharing a room with Synapse instances before 1.104.1, can dispatch specially crafted events to exploit a weakness in how the auth chain cover index is calculated. This can induce high CPU consumption and accumulate excessive data in the database of such instances, resulting in a denial of service. Servers in private federations, or those that do not federate, are not affected.
Synapse Database Schemas
This directory contains the schema files used to build Synapse databases. For more information, see https://element-hq.github.io/synapse/develop/development/database_schema.html.